Due to the WinRAR license, I am not allowed to distribute the Rar.exe file necessary for .cbr support. Therefore, if you want .cbr support, you must provide your own Rar.exe file. If you don't have your own Rar.exe file, don't worry, you can still create cbz, cb7, and cbt files. Thanks to lanux128 for the idea.

The Comic Book Archive Creator application does use the 7-zip commandline exe to create CBZ, CB7, and CBT files. You only need to provide your own Rar.exe file if you want to create CBR files. Does that make things clearer?

The Comic Book Archive Creator application does use the 7-zip commandline exe to create CBZ, CB7, and CBT files. You only need to provide your own Rar.exe file if you want to create CBR files. Does that make things clearer?

Just to clarify something which I hadn't understod and I believe PhotoComiX also hasn't:The program already includes 7zip to do some stuff (cbz, cb7 and cbt), however, 7zip can't create CBR files; that's what you need winrar.exe for (which, presumably is the only one which does support the creation of CBR files?)

Just to clarify something which I hadn't understod and I believe PhotoComiX also hasn't:The program already includes 7zip to do some stuff, however, 7zip can't create CBR files; that's what you need winrar.exe for (which, presumably is the only one which does support the creation of CBR files?)

To clarify, it's the Rar.exe file that Comic Book Archive Creator will look for...not the WinRAR.exe file. However, you're correct in that 7-zip cannot create RAR files. In fact, without a license, no third-party can create RAR files. They can all unpack RAR files because, as per the license, you can distribute and use the UnRAR components freely. In other words:

1) Creating RAR files means you must have a license.2) Unpacking RAR files is free.

So, to reiterate, Comic Book Archive Creator includes everything you need to create CBZ, CB7, and CBT files. If you want to create CBR files, you will have to provide your own copy of the Rar.exe file.

In the process of creating the comic, you make each page from a PDF into a JPG. I know that when creating a JPG, it is possible to indicate the 'compression quality' of the image, and I believe it can be set between 1 and 100 (1 is least compression and 100 is most compression). What do you use for a setting? Can it be added on the Options page so that we can squeeze (or not) the size of our comic book files?

In the process of creating the comic, you make each page from a PDF into a JPG. I know that when creating a JPG, it is possible to indicate the 'compression quality' of the image, and I believe it can be set between 1 and 100 (1 is least compression and 100 is most compression). What do you use for a setting? Can it be added on the Options page so that we can squeeze (or not) the size of our comic book files?

In the latest build, I added the ability to specify the output type (JPG or PNG) when converting PDFs. I also included your request to specify the quality of a jpg and the compression of a png. Some things to keep in mind:

The JPG quality value is 0-100 where 0 is the worst quality and 100 is the best quality. The default is 85.

The PNG compression value is 1-10 where 1 is the least compression and 10 is the most compression. The default is 6.